Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1914 — MUCH MONEY AWAITS HEIRS [ARTICLE]

MUCH MONEY AWAITS HEIRS

City Chamberlain of New York th* * Custodian of Large Bums That Are Unclaimed.

There is a place in New York city where unclaimed fortunes lie; hundreds of them, ranging from $1 up to $125,000. They are waiting there for heirs who have never appeared, for those whom litigation has enriched all unknowingly to them. The fortunes remain in the custody of the city chamberlain, for 20 years; then they are turned over to the state. And.there they ate held forever, hocumulatlng year by year, until somebody with an incontestible right appears to claim them. But hardly anyone does appear. In spite of the fact that in 1910 the city chamberlain turned over to the state $246,510.06, and this year $54,772, and that there is about $200,000 being held there now, it is a rare occasion when a contestant does put in hip claim.